Understanding How Apache Pulsar Works

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	Understanding How Apache Pulsar Works (jack-vanlightly.com)
	69 points by matteomerli 2808 days ago

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majidazimi 2808 days ago

Pulsar and DistributedLog solve two serious problems of Kafka:

1. Parallel recovery when a node fails

2. Limited read capacity of multiple consumers reading different parts of the log.

Log Device from Facebook also addresses these issues.

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ldite 2808 days ago

I found this blog post to be a higher level, and slightly clearer, overview of Pulsar vs. Kafka:

https://streaml.io/blog/pulsar-streaming-queuing

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airfreak 2800 days ago

This is analysis is for people who want to understand the internals of Apache Pulsar, rather than a high-level overview of how to use the technology and how it compares to Apache Kafka.

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